The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-01-21
THE LANGLEY BURGLARY.

The large party assembled at Lang
Icy Towers to celebrate in approved
fashion the approaching 1st OF Sep
TENDER, were all collected one night
after dinner in the drawing-room,
when the conversation, hitherto rath'
err languid, CHANGED to turn on burg
larry that had lately taken placein the
neighborhood. Every one at once
seized on the topic, and proceeded to
relate more or less irrelevant, but all
alike chastity, stories OF famous burg
laries and robberies. till suddenly Miss
Cecil Clifford, cousin OF Lady Lang.
ley's, very pretty girl and an heiress
to boot, who had hitherto taken no
part in the talk. looked up and said:
ri do wish you would not all dis
cuss such horrors. How do you ex-
pect us to sleep quietly in our beds if
you will insist on retailing such fright
full stories, especially as those wretch
es who broke into Colston Park are
still at large? l feel as il | should find
q burglar in my room tonight, so if !
should rouse the house with a false
alarm, don't blame me-"
II think / should die ii l were to
wake and see one in my room," ex-
claimed Lady Langley, struggling her
pretty white shoulders in not wholly
affected fright.
"At all events, the man would not
trouble you long enough with his COM
pany il that tin case OF yours, with
your diamonds in it, were lying on
your dressing table as usual" return.
cd her cousin. 81 know you'll be
murdered through those diamonds
one day."
"Do you really mean that Lady
Langley keeps her jewelry in hor dress
ing tablet" asked Captain lie Mar.
chant, an impecunious young man,
who was suspected on very good
grounds, OF being au mieux with the
pretty heiress, and who was in conse-
quence rather out OF favor with her
guardians.
ITO be sure she does" laughed the
host; "and as Cecil says, i know we
shall wake up some fine morning to
findourselves corpses because OF that
within of hers"
whats the use OF having jewelry il
1t is always to be at the banker's!'
retorted Lady Langley.
ri wish to goodness you'd be sensi-
BILE, Flo'," demonstrated her cousin,
"and have it kept in the plateroom
at all events. know that shall do
nothing but dream ofyour diamonds" "
Lady Langley laughed gayly, and
seemed to take a malicious pleasure
in keeping the conversation on the
same subject, despite her cousin very
evident dislike OF it, in which she was
assisted by Captain lie Marchant,
who chaffed Miss Clifford good deal
about her nerves, until the party
separated for the night.
The next morning the house was in
confusion, for the diamonds were
gone.
Lady Langley missed them the mo-
ment she rose, for, her maid bein far
from well at the time, she had hidden
the girl not sit up for her, and had I'M
dressed herself, leaving her diamonds,
which she had been wearing, loose on
her dressing table, where Cecil Clifford
found them when she came to her cous-
ms room to bid her goodnight as
usual, and she put them in their case.
OF course, every hole and corner was
searched. but in vain. The ponce
came, but were equally unsucces- al.
Not n trace of either the thieves or the
iewelry was to be found. The police,
including the detective hastily sum-
moned fr''m London, were positive
hat the robbery had been committed
by some one in the house-a convic-
lion that did not add to the COM
iort OF the inmates OF Langley Tow
rs. Suspicion ran riot; the house
hold servants, one and all, be-
'onged to well-known and respectable
families in the neizhbofhood, and had
mostly been for considerable periods
n the Lnncleys' service. while the Wis
tors servants, it Happened. seemed
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